Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Not threatened
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 76: 596 (1947)
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

(A.Rich.) Allan
A.Rich.
Allan
1947
596
ICN
species
Myrsine australis

Click to collapse Classification Info

australis

Click to collapse Hybridisation Info

Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan × Myrsine aquilonia de Lange & Heenan

Click to collapse Associations Info

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan

Shrub or tree up to ± 6 m. tall; bark dark, red on younger branches and on branchlets. Lvs on rather stout petioles up to ± 5 mm. long. Lamina ± 3-6 × 1·5-2.5 cm., coriac., glab. except on midvein, oblong to obovate-oblong to broad-elliptic, obtuse; margins us. strongly undulate, flat or nearly so in some forms. Infl. of ± crowded fascicles. Fls. c. 1·5-2.5 mm. diam., whitish, unisexual, on short pedicels. Calyx-lobes 4 or obsolete, persistent. Petals 4, free, revolute; ♂ with 4 stamens, anthers large, ovary vestigial; ♀ with sterile anthers; stigma ± sessile, fimbriate. Fr. c. 2-3 mm. diam., dark brown to black when mature.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Myrsine urvillei A.DC.
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Rapanea australis (A.Rich.) W.R.B. Oliver
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
Suttonia australis A.Rich.
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan

Click to collapse Collections Info

Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
[Not available]
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
[Not available]
Fiord
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
[Not available]
North-western
Myrsine australis (A.Rich.) Allan
[Not available]
Ruahine-Cook

Click to collapse Metadata Info

0e4e2031-dc6f-4d25-860a-d0b376cc1340
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
5 September 2011
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top